#33259: cmake portgroup: out of source build option, possibly by default ---------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | ---------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by rjvbertin@…): Replying to [comment:49 larryv@…]:

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which kind of goes against the very reasons OOS builds were made the default

I don’t agree. The point of portgroups is to cut down on portfile boilerplate, not necessarily to reduce maintainer effort.

I wasn't talking about the reason to use a portgroup, but to make OOS builds the default in the cmake portgroup.

Also: Given that this modification would change the default build behavior, I think it’d be a good thing to require portfiles to be updated for it. It’s confusing when a port’s behavior mysteriously changes because of portgroup action-at-a-distance, especially if it breaks. This happens all too often, and it can be difficult to debug.

I this case it should be sufficiently clear from looking (ok, squinting hard) at the paths shown in the main.log Portfiles that just do a standard cmake - build - install shouldn't run into any problems, because cmake itself has no issues doing OOS builds. Anyway, with GSoC coming up, why not tinker the portgroup inclusion logic a bit? A change as proposed would fit in very well, I think, with a scheme in which `Portgroup cmake 1` loads the most recent v1.x portgroup, while `PortGroup cmake 1.x` would include the exact 1.x version. That would allow portfiles that don't do anything "weird" like copying things from ${build.dir} to ${destroot} can always use the latest portgroup version, while ports with specific requirements can specify what version they need. This seems so logical when versions are already supported that the feature maybe exists already? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33259#comment:50> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X